School Awards
Our Most Recent Awards
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MUSD Voted #1 Best Place to Work for a fourth year in a row in the 2025 Tucson Local Media Best of the Northwest competition! Plus Best School, Best Principal, Best Teacher and Best Mascot!
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Rattlesnake Ridge earned the coveted A+ School of Excellence™ Award from the Arizona Educational Foundation, the highest state-level recognition given to a public school!
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Rattlesnake Ridge Elementary School Earns High Reliability School (HRS) Level 2 certification, Ensuring Effective Teaching in Every Classroom!
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Rattlesnake Ridge Elementary School was recognized by PBIS AZ for their hard work implementing PBIS practices at their school, receiving the Model School Award.
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Congratulations to these ten schools for their hard work instilling and sustaining Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) to improve academic and behavioral outcomes for students!
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Marana USD has several winners in the Best of the Northwest contest! Voted #1 Best Place to Work for a third year in a row, we have many schools, teachers, and leaders to celebrate!
An Award Winning School!
The following is a list of awards earned by our school, staff, and school academic and athletic programs:
2023
- Level 1 High Reliabilility Certification
- Level 4 PBISAZ Award
- PBISAZ Model School Award
- Bryant Banzhaf, Runner-up in Pima County Spelling Bee
- "A" State Letter Grade
2022
- Best of the Nothwest: Best Teacher
- Best of the Nothwest: Best K-6 Principal
- Best of the Nothwest: Best K-6 School
- PBISAZ Award Winning School
- Energy Saver School of the Month
2021
- Mrs. Heather Johnson (PE) named Innovative Teacher of the Year